going on. a lot of people around. it was 1:30 in the afternoon, but, still, police say this family was assaulted in plain view because of their race. >> to commit a hate crime, it will not be tolerated in san francisco. we take this very, very seriously. >> san francisco police say that reminder is necessary after wednesday's attack at civic center plaza. a man hurled racial epithets at a mixed race couple pushing their toddlers in a stroller. police say he threw punches at the mother, the father and a good samaritan who tried tonight convenient. >> the suspect then attempted to kick the back of the stroller, the back of the tarp, the stroller thereby kicking the child in the back of the head in the process. >> the 48-year-old suspect is in jail facing assault, child endangerment and hate crime charges. it happened just days after a group of five men attacked three men outside this restaurant in the mission district. carlos manfredy yelled anti-gay

remarks at the victims and detectives are still searching for them. >> we're very fortunate that there's a culture of acceptance and inclusion overall, perhaps more so than in other parts of the country, but that doesn't mean it's all lovie dovy and that there's no hate and no prejudice. >> nancy appell of the anti-defamation league supports the theory while it may seem like hate crimes are on the rise in san francisco, the real reason numbers have increased is because more people are reporting them. >> hate crimes send a message of terror basically, not only to that individual target, but to everybody who shares that characteristic, and also for people in the larger community because they are looking at it and saying, yeah, i'm not. >> san francisco's district attorney revealed last spring that several white supremacist groups are active in the city. police are compiling the information so they can try to determine a pattern. >> this goes across a spectrum. race, gender, lbgt, it's everywhere. >> while the anti-defamation league says that there has also

been a rash of swastika graffiti across the city. now the police point out that not all of these things are being committed by white supremacist groups. they also say one of the reasons we might find a lot of this in san francisco is because some of these crimes are sometimes committed to transients who might be suffering from mental illness or anger management issues. that's what they are going to explore in the case of what happens here at civic center plaza. live in san francisco, trac tra grant, nbc bay area news. >> we're just learning the identity of a motorcyclist killed over the weekend, allegedly run over by a shuttle driver who dragged him for more than half a mile. the alameda county coroner's office identified him at 51-year-old george lopez of stockton. as for the driver now, east bay paratransit says 31-year-old eddie hall has a good driving record and is in good standing with the company.

police are trying to determine if hall intentionally ran down the motorcyclist on 580 in san leandro on saturday. officers say the victim was riding with members of the hell's angels when he was struck and killed. it's not confirmed if lopez was a member of the biker gang. the accident forced the closure of 580 for more than 12 hours. >> what to do with the oakland mayor? some are not happy with the job mayor quan is doing and decided to take the complaint to the people in the form to recall her. saying the mayor has failed to provide strong leadership, particularly on the area of crime. the petition was filed this morning and criticizes quan for, quote, willfully ignoring the city's most pressing issue, public safety. you mayor now gets a chance to respond to the notice, and recall supporters will have 160 days to collect 120,000 signatures from registered voters. the city clerk says it's the first time in nine years there's been an attempt to recall an

elected official. a big court win for the city of oakland today. a jury ruled 10-2 to mayor, former mayor ron dellums, did not discriminate against city attorney debra edgerly when he fired her. julie was fired after backing out of an agreement to retire. at the time she was under scrutiny for awarding her nephew of a planned anti-gang sweep. dellums said she was fired because she was a woman who refused to follow orders. the city spent $1 million on the case. >> lieutenant governor gavin newsom is the third former san francisco mayor now backing ed lee for a full term in office, but the endorsement comes amid a ballot tampering scandal. newsom's announcement comes at a time when the interim mayor is taking heat after a neighborhood group that supports him was accused of ballot tampering. video shows volunteers helping voters fill out absentee ballots. lee says he supports any investigation by the district

attorney into tampering. >> i know that some of the video indicates that there -- that they are wearing these ed lee for mayor t-shirts. that has nothing to do with my campaign at all, and i want to make sure that you understand that, that these -- what they call these independent expenditures. we have no knowledge of what they are diagnosis or who is leading them. we have no connection or communications with them. we're not supposed to. >> candidates who are up against lee for the city's top job are calling for federal and state monitors during the november 8th election. >> well, you may have had the weekend off but the san jose police department felt like it was working overtime responding to a deadly stabbing, unarmed suspect and a continued search for hell's angels biker and accused killer. nbc bay area's chris sanchez joins us in the newsroom with the department of 1,100 officers is burning the candle at both ends. chris? >> i think that's probably what it feels like for a lot of police officers and their families, too. the san jose police department is struggling with the same kind of cutbacks that so many other departments are dealing with up and down the state, but at the

same time the department is adapting to fewer officers, and the ones still on the street are dealing with that spike in violent crime and some around-the-clock situations that are demanding a lot of overtime. >> 30 heavily armed san jose s.w.a.t. officers surrounded a house in stockton on saturday on a tip that the suspect wanted for the killing of another hell's angels biker was inside. the standoff alone was 13 hours long, not counting planning and travel. the next day for the seventh time san jose police officers fired on a suspect who they say were armed and threatening. those officers will be on administrative leave for about two weeks. the homicide count in the city is up to 300 and the city staffing is down. 67 san jose police officers were laid off this sumner a move projected to save the city between $12 million and $13 million but the flip side is fewer officers mean more

overtime. consider between july and october of this year officers worked 48,679 hours of overtime. in the same period the year before, it was almost the same at 49,481 hours of ot, also the same but with 67 fewer officers on the street. >> overtime is always going to be an issue because public safety is a 24/7 job, and, you know, if we take officers away from the police department, that job still has to get done. >> ask any officer and they say o is it part of the job. in fact, salary records reflect how much a part. one crime analyst made $69,000 in base pay but made nearly $61,000 in overtime. that was the highest overtime payout for the department last year. the next highest was that of an officer who made $107,000 of base pay and wrakd up 60 grand in overtime. officers expect overtime for big events like the violence between

biker gangs this fall and the one-man crime spree that led police on an around-the-clock manhunt. the problem arises when officers are called in to work overtime for day-to-day operations which can lead to officer fatigue and stress if there's not enough time for officers to debrief between calls. >> it should not be the only answer, and it should be used in situations where it's truly above and beyond the normal daily activities of the department, and then that would lead to sustainability of the kind of fiscal sustainability later on? >> justice studies professor reminds us that the overtime staffing challenges, the sjpd are dealing with, are not unique to their department. they are same challenges that so many police chiefs are dealing with, up and down the state. raj? >> okay, thank you, chris. a big headache for commuters in marin county. take a look, our nbc chopper above the scene, southbound 101 closed for several hours, but the freeway has just reopened a short while ago. a big rig hauling a load of

bottled wine crashed into a concrete barrier after being cut off at around 2:30 this afternoon. the truck then caught fire and also spilled much of its wine. 101 though is now open but moving slowly. bay area religious leaders showed support for the occupy sf movement. an interfaith group carried four financial institutions downtown and performed a ritual at each location. they say it represents wealth and greed. they also brought food and clothes for the demonstrators camping up at justin herman plaza in solidarity with occupy wall street. >> it is also a very intentional movement to say we don't separate what we do in our faith, in our churches from what happens in politics and government, and so we're really here to lift our voices, to speak to power and to -- to make it known that this is not okay. the condition of america as it is now is not acceptable. let's change it. >> the interfaith group says they will check in with occupy okay land prosters next week to

see if they can support their efforts at the plaza which is situated in front of city hall. well, a man in san jose is taking the occupy movement to new heights, literally. he perched himself on a ledge outside city hall. the protesters say the man's name is sean o'kell, and he's been up there since early this morning. he unfurled a homemade banner expressing his dedication to the cause. police say they won't be keeping him down but will be keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn't fall. well, still to come at 6:00, the president touching down here in california, his big-money fund-raising plans for the week which includes a trip to the bay area and a look at which areas to avoid in terms of street closures when he arrives tomorrow. >> i'm scott budman. coming up, where silicon valley ceos go when they fail. >> i'm jodi hernandez in livermore where new fears have resurfaced surrounding a park known as plutonium park, but are those fears warranted?

i'll have a live report coming up. and good evening. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. despite how warm this sky camera looks in san jose tonight, definitely had a lot of cooling across the bay area, temperature dropping 20 degrees in some locations with a lot of 60s and 70s. more about the cooldown and our increasing fire danger cg

we've said this a few times already this year. president obama is heading here to the bay area. he'll arrive at sfo tomorrow, but tonight he just arrived in l.a. it's all about fund-raising. let's go down south now to l.a.'s hancock park. we're joined by nbc's conan nolan. conan, he won't be there long, we know that, but he has some high-profile visits down there, correct? >> reporter: certainly does. another trip to the political world's atm machine, the state of california. he was here just a couple of weeks ago and now he's back.

this area behind me in hancock park west of downtown being hosted by actor will smith and his wife, jada pink yet smith, $38,500 per person. the dnc, democratic national committee gets a cut of this as well. after this another hollywood actor couple, melanie griffith and her husband antonio banderas for latinos for obama co-hosted by eva longoria and that's $5,000 per couple. 120 people taking part in that. then tomorrow he's going to be on "the tonight show" with jay helpo hoping to raise several million for the campaign before they head north to san francisco. the president, i should point out here a little late. we're told that on his way here from l.a.x. he stopped on peco boulevard to visit a roscoe's chicken and waffles, a famous little establishment chain in southern california. he ordered some chicken wings,

shook some hands, took some pictures and hopped back in the motorcade and made his way here, having chicken wings before he has two high-profile dinners than the chicken he got at that chicken and waffle house. in any case, the president once again back in southern california raising more cash before he heads north. i'm conan nolan reporting live from los angeles. back to you. >> okay, conan. thank you very much. president obama with will smith and melanie griffith among the v.i.p.s and tomorrow here at the "w" hotel in san francisco. traffic, needless to say, will be affected by the presidential visit, mostly in san francisco south of market near the w hotel. notable street closures between 11:30 and 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. northbound 3 ird from fullsome to mission and southbound new montgomery from mission to howard and really the intersection of third and howard will be the met affected. >> new worries tonight resurfacing in livermore where the lawrence livermore lab is planning a contamination

cleanup. there are some concerns about whether it's a good idea to do that and whether it could be more harm than good. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez joins us live in livermore where the plans are fueling, some fears about plutonium, jodi? >> reporter: jess characters i'm standing inside big trees park, a park where they received plutonium here decades ago. many people in this area call this park plutonium park. tonight old fears are being stirred up regarding a contamination cleanup of a different kind. >> i trust the lab. >> reporter: mary kay brown says she's heard the concerns about her neighborhood park, a park where fertilizer laced with traces of plutonium from nearby lawrence livermore lab was mixed into the soil decades ago, but brown believes the concerns are overblown. >> decided that it wasn't an amount of plutonium that would

be worrisome for health. >> reporter: even though the test results couple back as safe, there are new worries tonight. next spring the department of energy will extend a pipeline through the area to pump out contaminated water. we want this contaminated water cleaned up, but we're worried about the airborne plutonium dust that might result. >> the folks with tri-valley communities against a radioactive environment say they are worried. the new cleanup will kick up dangerous dust they believe is still buried deep underground. >> plutonium is a highly dangerous contaminant is aborn and inhaled would have very serious health effects for anybody who came into contact with it. >> if there's plutonium in the soil it could get airborne and if it's breathed it can lead to cancer. >> no apparent health hazard to the public, and this is based on soil samples that were done at

that park. >> john ballardo with the department of energy which has overseen the cleanup says a 2003 study found the soil at the park to be perfectly safe. he says the water cleanup project won't dig up anything dangerous. >> we are trying to be a good neighbor. we're extending the pipeline to gather contaminated water, bring it back on site, treat it, remove the contaminants. this will make the area as clean as possible. >> that's good enough for brown who loves the park and trusts the lab. >> i trust that they will do it safely. i trust that they will make sure that they are not doing something that will endanger people. >> now a lot of families live nearby this park, and i'll tell you, most of the people we talk to say they are not concerned at all. now the department of energy says that they are going to listen to all of the concerns, and they are going to address those concerns before they start the project. it's slated to start next april,

and it will continue until september. meanwhile the tri-valley care folks plan to hold a community meeting coming up november 3rd. reporting live in livermore, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, jodi. >> san francisco police say a crash that seriously injured eight people overnight involved two drunk drivers. officers say the driver of a van ran a red light at the intersection of tenth and howard and slammed into a sedan. fire crews had to use the jaws of life to pull people out of that sedan. two of the victims are in critical condition. police arrested both drivers. investigators suspect the van was involved in an earlier hit-and-run crash. they say they also found a significant amount of cocaine inside that van. >> all right. google is getting bigger. mountainview may soon have to be named googleview. the search giant is expanding yet again, this time with a 240,000 square foot office, a big office center near its original headquarters also at mountainview. the report $100 million purchase

price is for an expanded shore line near 101. the company has reportedly spent $225 million for 15 properties in mountainview this year alone. >> well, it's only been available for a few hours, but steve jobs' official biography is on sale now. video of the private memorial held for steve jobs was posted on its own website. ♪ his widow lore even ne is looki as the pant coldplay sings in honor of the apple founder. current apple ceo tim cook and former vice president al gore also spoke.

>> music legend and bay area carlos santana went back to school today, back to mission high in san francisco and he was rocking the campus with his guitar. take a listen. >> that's a heck of a day at school when carlos santana drops. in the class of 1965 at mission, but today santana was jamming with the class of 2012. students got to meet him and then members of the guitar club got to play with him. gosh, that's phenomenal. if that's not enough, the rock 'n' roll hall of famer also donated 30 cars to the school. he spoke to the students about believing in them sdmefls. >> that's what i call a school of rock. wish we could have jammed with him. hey, jeff, how are you. top that. >> it will be hard to top that. the kids down there getting to meet him is one thing and cool as a cucumber. playing along with carlos santana. take a look at the numbers

today. did have some major cooling. may have topped a little bit of that heat out there at the auditorium with the blast of some beach weather that i know a lot of you really love. today major cooling on our monday. temperatures dropping anywhere from 10 to 21 degrees cooler in napa so it is the north bay where we're seeing some of the coldest changes with the onshore flow and cooler air aloft starting to push in. 75 in san jose and a lot cooler from redwood city from san francisco and just 66 after 80-degree temperatures in the only in san francisco but record setting heat in oakland on saturday. right now it did look pretty warm, at least from our sky camera network and the winds now starting to shift out of the northwest. it's that northwesterly wind that is going to increase. also our fire danger as we've been previewing for days now as we look ahead in the forecast. right now it's foggy and very typical this time of the year with low 60s. right now everyone is dropping into the 60s across the board

and santa rosa with 59. cool to cold night coming across the bay area. >> let's get a look at fog where it is now. not seeing too much off the north bay but for the south peninsula, a little bit of low cloud cover moving in and that's going to give us a brief onshore flow and what we have opening is late tuesday and wednesday is high pressure is going to build here and going to bring back this mild air with us and most notably it's going to increase those winds right across the hills in the east and north bay and drop the humidities from the 10% to 20% range. more come up on our fire weather watch and how long this fire danger will be lasting in my seven-day forecast. >> okay, jeff. see you in just a few minutes. >> still ahead at 6:00, a two-ton haul, a big piece of history stolen in san francisco. >> a bay area man was

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a long time silicon valley darling of wall street continues to crumble tonight. we want to bring in our business tech reporter scott budman with the latest chapter in what seems like the never ending netflix saga. >> yeah. can't go on this way for much longer, jessica. a familiar tune for netflix investors who are feeling more pain tonight. once against the los gatos company reporting a big decline in subscribers, 800,000 lost over the last three months, how netflix makes money, and the company admits the future is looking a lot less rosy than recent past. shares hammered after hours because of the report dropping 28%. ahead of the report, tech stocks across the board started the week by making you money. that led to a big day for the markets as a whole, a triple-digit gain for the dow, the nasdaq up 2.5%. on a dave success for your money, we also stopped by a conference devoted entirely to

failure. it's in its third year and brings together startup companies, venture capitalists and takes pain to remind young techies it's okay to fail. most successful companies started by messing something up. the organizers say accepting failure should even start with our kids. >> these kids are getting soft when they are just told you did a good job. i'll give you a b-plus for effort. what? no. effort gets you far in life, it doesn't get you an a. you need to get the cs and ds so you know what you do wrong. >> even the best of the technology sometimes swing and miss, raj, and it's kind of interesting how organizers say for entrepreneurs to better embrace failure, kids can't be scared of it either. >> thank you, scott. we've failed many times. we can fit right in. a man who checked in a load gun at l.a.x. may face charges for not notifying airlines. security failed to detect the .38 caliber handgun in a passenger's bag and the gun fell

out of a checked bag while being loaded on an alaska airlines plane. passengers may travel with firearms in checked bags, but the guns must be unloaded and declared. the gun owner was questioned by police and allowed to board a later flight. the gun was turned over to the police. >> well, still ahead here, a day at work that they will never forget. >> i mean, there's no time to think about oh, my gosh, this is really going on. this is not part of a tv show, you know. we're right in the middle of the midst of chaos. >> it's a story you'll see only on "nbc bay area." reliving the day that a shooter went on a massacre in the south bay. tonight though you hear firsthand from the people who tried desperately to save workers at a cupertino kwaury. >> and shore to shore, a wave of debris from the japanese earthquake and tsunami is now heading west, and it's coming sooner than expected. >> under water and out of hope. the president's new plan to help

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the dispatcher who took the first 911 call from the cupertino quarry massacre is speaking only to nbc bay area. she describes the chaos in the room as emergency crews rush to help the victims. the dispatcher sat down with our damien true crow. >> emergency services, what are you reporting in. >> yes. i've got to report a shooting. >> reporter: it was 4:27 a.m. when the first call came in from the cupertino kwaury. >> where's the patient? >> there's multiple. i got a call, multiple shooting victims in the quarry >> reporter: dispatcher on the 25th was catalina casallas. >> there was chaos in here, the phones, the radio, the deputies calling in. >> reporter: it was the worse she had seen the control room at county communication center in her 14 years, but she had to

focus. and can you find out how many? we're sending fire and ambulance. >> you're trained at the academy, how we're trained here. you furnish that phone call and the phone that's ringing, you've got to pick that up and continue. >> there was no time to panic, no time to try to personalize the calls. at the other end of the control room christopher murcado dispatched his ambulances. we sent one and even though nobody requested anything i just went ahead and, you know, i went out and said that it sound like it was pretty bad so we should start a second. >> reporter: but those ambulances couldn't immediately go in and get the injured because the quarry was still a dangerous crime scene. >> i know like it might have taken a long time but we're trying to get there as fast as we possibly can. >> organized chaos. we did what we needed to do, and i think we did it well, as burt, he's the director who often says, he'd put his team up any team any day. >> wish there was more he could have done, wished help arrived

sooner and now casallas and her team have to move on from one of the worst massacres this building had to deal with. the counting is offering free counseling for all the dispatchers who were involved with this incident but casallas says she doesn't need it. she says she's trained to handle bad news. in san jose, i'm damien trujillo, "nbc bay area news." >> up to 20 million tons of ocean debris from japan's earthquake could arrive on bay area beaches much sooner than expected. we're talking about tvs, fridges, furniture, now heading for hawaii. it will start washing up on hawaiian shores and then beginning in 2014 it's estimated to make it to the west coast. crews aboard a russian ship spotted the floating waste last month including the 20-foot fishing boat 2,000 miles off of japan's coast near the islands. trying to keep this up, won't be easy either. >> and the area that we're talking about that this degree

is floating in is something on the order of twice the size of texas, so you can't just run a garbage scooper across texas. there will be a few places where the debris is concentrated. we might be able to get some of it, but for the most part we'll have to pick it up as it hits our shores, our reefs, our beaches. >> japan was badly damaged by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake following the tsunami march 11th. it left 20,000 people dead or missing. >> part of san francisco's history is now missing. a historic bell given to st. mary's cathedral in the city was stolen over the weekend. this is what the bell looked like. it was made in 1889 at a baltimore foundry and shipped to san francisco where it survived the 1906 earthquake and the fire that ensued, and that fire burned down the original st. mary's cathedral on vanness. this is what the site looks like now, empty, just a stand there.

officials think someone may have stolen it for the copper. >> i'm presuming it's because of the economic hard times and it's because of the fact that there's 80% copper in this bell. 20% tin. they call that a bell metal, and -- and i'm just presuming that people have taken it for its value, the value of the copper. >> well, the church says it is a priceless artifact that stands about 4 feet tall and five feet wide and weighs several thousand pounds. the church is offering a reward for the bell's return. >> coast guard this morning suspended its search for a kayaker who was lost in san francisco bay sunday afternoon. a 55-year-old man was kayaking with a friend when his kayak flipped over. witnesses say the man got caught and the current created by a nearby tugboat. the coast guard did search for some 18 hours before they called it off. because of the amount of time that has passed in the water, they now believe that it is doubtful that that man is still

alive, although his identity has not been made public yet. the search for survivors continues in southeastern turkey today following a massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake. an estimated 270 people have been confirmed killed, and over 1,000 injured, and those numbers are rising as each hour passes. thousands of people are unaccounted for and are feared to be dropped under the debris. rescuers continue to search for survivors but are hampered by freezing temperatures and darkness. aid workers have set up shelter for thousands whose homes have been destroyed. >> here at home, the president says he's make another move to try to keep americans in their home. his latest plan opens the refinance option to many homeowners trapped in old high rate mortgages. mr. obama was in las vegas earlier today unveiling his mortgage refinance program. it's for homeowners who pay their mortgage every month but still owe more than their home is worth so they can't refinance. if their mortgage is with fannie mae or freddie mac they can

refinance at current low rates. >> it really is going to help somewhere between 800,000 and 1 million folks with mortgages, most of which were not able to refinance under the previous program. >> 6 million homeowners have fallen behind in their mortgages. the president has spent just 2.4 billion of the 50 billion he pledged because his housing second today said the problem was worse than they expected. >> still to come here at 6:00, the emotional toll of a chemical, a widely used plastic being linked to problems with young girls. >> and good evening, i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. after a spectacular weekend, temperatures well above average and a lot of sunshine. the fog has rolled back into san francisco and temperatures dropping into the 60s and mid-70s. we'll have more in this cooling trend and even our increased fire danger this week coming up.

33 witnesses, four weeks of testimony. today prosecutors at the trial of michael jackson's doctor, conrad murray, finally wrapped up their case. before doing so the defense attempted to poke holes in the prosecution's final witness. he testified that conrad murray gave michael jackson more than 40 types the propofol, 45 milligrams, that the doctor claims. the doctor said jackson took pills for anxiety and injected himself with propofol in a desperate attempt to sleep. sources say murray's lawyers have developed a new time line that they will lay out for jurors this week. >> they have to do is kick up enough sand and hopefully something sticks with some juror that creates reasonable doubt. >> the defense is expected to call some 15 witnesses of its own. >> pregnant women may need to stay clear of bpa, a common chemical used in many plastic products. researchers found that pregnant women with higher levels of bpa in their bodies were more likely

to have daughters with behavioral problems like depression, anxiety and aggression. no link was found for boys. now the study looked at more than 200 mothers from pregnancy up until their kids were 3 years old. bpa mimics human hormone and has been linked to cancer in animal studi studies. >> let's bring in jeff ranieri. starting to feel a little more fall-like. numbers down 20 degrees. it's like you're in a dream this weekend. beach weather. everywhere in northern california was spectacular, but look at this, the fall coming back into san francisco. we'll let you know about our cooling temperatures and also our increased fire danger in just minutes. >> good evening, everyone. plenty of questions at the quarterback spot for the raiders a day after a bad performance against the chiefs. plus, could we see the return of t.o. to the bay area? we have the answers coming straight ahead in sports. that's next.

between tv commercials and your mailbox you probably noticed it's election season. candidates from across the bay area are hoping to make history. 60 years ago a san francisco candidate was also making history. nbc bay area joe roetso jr. shows what made his run for office such a challenge.

i was normal, as norm as as the next man. >> when you hear the details of jose sarria's life, normal least likely comes to mind. in the '50s he was san francisco's most well known drag queen. >> the fightingale. >> he was never afraid to mix his performances to a little politics and eventually it occurred to him that maybe politics needed a good performer, so 50 years in 1961 he decided to run for a seat on san francisco's board of supervisors. >> there was nothing in the books that said a gay person could not run. there was nothing in the books. >> sarria says the hardest part of his campaign was convincing people to sign his petition to get on the ballot and did get on

the ballot and collected 5,000 votes and though he came in ninth his candidacy immediately changed politics. >> so jose proved that there's a gay vote, that's huge and from that people campaigned for the gay vote. >> historians with lbgt historical society believes sarria is the first openly gay man to run for public office in the world, 16 years before harvey milk was elected to office and 50 years before the current campaign. >> here i am as a gay man running for mayor an i've received the endorsement of every public safety union, the police officer's association, the fire fighters and deputy sheriffs. that's very, very different than what jose started in the '60s. >> sarria now has a plaque and a street named after him in the castro. >> you can actually listen to two different people. >> this week the lbgt museum is opening a display chronicling his run, all for a guy who says he's just normal. joe roetso jr., nbc bay area news.

>> quite a character. >> all right. let's turn things over to jeff ranieri in the weather center who want to talk about this drop in temperature. >> yes. i'm all about showing the comparison and this weekend it was so nice out there. a lot of you heading out to the beach. i headed out towards the beaches right off san francisco, and it was really spectacular on sunday. temperatures were in the upper 70s and low 80s and we even had temperatures close to 90 degrees in santo rosa on saturday and those numbers crashed today with a mix ever 60s and 70s here with our major monday cooling. now other numbers today for the daytime highs, 76 in the valley and 74 in los gatos and santa cruz dropping big time, down to 63 degrees so we had the cooling here with us, but we also have winds starting to shift out of the northwest at 9 miles per hour for a lot of interior sections. that's a sign of what's going to be coming in the days here over the next 48 hours with some increased fire danger, and as we look out towards san francisco we currently have some foggy conditions and a temperature of 63 degrees.

other numbers dropping right now. santa rosa at 59 so pretty cool, 68 in sunnyvale and 64 in gilroy. chilly out there. no doubt it will be a cold night and we'll see that patchy fog coming back to the bay area, but then as we head throughout tuesday, here's where it gets a little bit tricky for us. going to see the winds shift to more of an offshore direction and that's going to increase our fire danger and then ahead we'll still look at some cooling numbers in the seven-day forecast. many of you are probably asking where is this rainfall. we should be starting to get some storms in here right about now. it's all back here around the pacific but the problem is the pattern is ridging this well up to the north and canada and also washington therefore missing us. we have high pressure nudging into just the right spot that we won't get too hot but what we'll get from it are these winds off the back side of it that are going to be drying out of the north and slightly offshore so for tuesday what we'll find is temperatures still in the 70s inland and then throughout wednesday the winds starting to

increase throughout the hills. with that said we do have the father weather in place through thursday morning, primarily for the north and also the east bay hills where humidity levels will be in the 10% to 20% range and we're also talking about winds, 15 to 30 miles per hour. definitely increased here for the bay area. as for tonight, we'll find a little bit of fog burning to the morning hours and tomorrow winds shifting offshore. we'll have some sunshine coming on back. tonight, low to mid-50s here. a cold night up into the north bay with us just 52 in santa rosa and for tomorrow, a little bit below average here. 74 in san jose and 76 in evergreen and 57 in dublin and 73 in pooltio. for san francisco 66 and a stark contrast from this weekend from 70s in half moon bay to just 61 on tuesday. 74 in concord and 72 in kent field, and for much of the week we'll stay in the 70s with the drying wind as we head

throughout late tuesday, wednesday and thursday. morning time on the weather channel on cable, you can see we'll stay with some 70s here as we head throughout next six days or so, and i've got to say, got to love san francisco weather. when i was out walking through downtown, i saw a woman in a parka but not just one to the waist. it was all the way down to her legs. >> she's getting ready. >> ready for ski season. >> thank you, self-. >> our comcast sports newsroom and was that just a bad might mayor, what happened with the raiders? >> i hope it's not a scene of things to come, thanks, guys. two weeks to lick their wounds following the 28-0 for the kansas city. staring at the bye week as they sit in second place in the afc west with a record of 4-3.

the bye comes at just the right time for the raiders. here's y.raiders are trying to get new quarterback carson palmer up to speed with the offense. palmer saw his first game action of the season on sunday after starting quarterback kyle boller threw three interceptions, one it is for the touchdown. he also threw three ints. not a good day. more from al immediate a. >> a new quarterback plus an you goingly shutout loss equals no break for carson palmer in the bye week. >> everybody wondered, ooh, put this guy in a game and there's some good to that and there was some -- you know, there were some moments that you go wow. obviously he hadn't played a lot of football. also not going to have a preseason, you know, an opportunity to get a fast look. >> came in here and punched him right in the mouth and that's a

nasty taste losing like that in your home, and i'm sure that everybody will want to make it and come in and put the work in. >> the raiders offense will have an extra week to find a new rhythm and the biggest key will be establishing chemistry with the new quarterback. >> that's what football is, you know, on offense, a relationship with your quarterback, and that's what training counts for and that's what off season workouts are for. >> obviously he's not going to know him as well as he will six months from now or three months from now. i think we've got to feed the process up as fast as he can, but he'll have a better grasp of what this guy can do and that guy can do based on situations because he'll have more practice times. >> reporter: the raiders will practice tuesday and wednesday, and then the team has a mandatory four straight off days thursday through sunday due to the new cba rules in which the coaches can have no contact with their team.

however, palmer and his receivers will be organizing their own workouts. at the raiders headquarters in alameda, i'm kate longworth, nbc bay area. >> thank you, kate could. there be a terrell owens sighting in the bay air crashing speaking of wide receivers. the former 49er wideout he's working out for teams today in hopes of a return to the nfl at age of 37. the niners said they have no interest in owens, while the raiders head coach hue jackson said he didn't know anything about the workout. don't hold your breath to say number 81 around here any time soon. 49ers are hoping to get help at the wide receiver spot. braylon edwards out with a torn meniscus and jim harbaugh expects him to be on the practice field on tuesday in hopes of playing this weekend against the cleveland browns. he's been out since september 18th injured in a loss to the dallas cow bows. last night we focused on the idea of college athletes getting paid by the ncaa.

ncaa president scott emmert was quoted on our show saying, he quote, loathed, unquote, the idea and that it would never happen. today emmert altered his stance to say he supported the conference allowing grants to student athletes of $2,000 including other fees like tuition, room and board and books. they will ask for schools to provide multi-year grants, not the year-to-year scholarships that they get now. that would mean schools would not take the student athlete scholarship away in the middle of his or her careers. plus, you get the extra two grand in your pocket, not too bad, dates, nights out with the fellows. by the way, if you had two grand in your pockets when you were in college, i'm sure there would be no shenanigans. >> tuition, tuition. that's what you spend it on. >> that's not enough. >> 25 cent chicken wings, that's a date. >> you know, that would be my every night. that and someone else's -- i

could live off your $2,000, that's the kind of scrounge i am. espn reporting for nba fans out there that nba is cancelling two more weeks of the nba season getting them through the month of november. how is that for a happy ending tonight? >> that's not fun. especially for all the workers that work at the arena for the warriors. thanks, jim. for a full half of spo of sport coverage watch tonight at 10:30. >> we'll be right back.

torrent at 11:00, pg & e finds a new pipe since testing was done in april. teens, soft drinks and the dangerous behavior being linked to excessive soda drinking. tonight at 11:00 after "prime suspect." >> now a look at what's coming up at 7:00. >> all your headline-making stories and a father and son team right here in the bay area reaches for the stars to break a world record. high a team with high altitude balloons has flown to new heights. we'll talk to them about how they beat the world record and an ivy league team while they are at it. >> i hope to see you back here at 11:00 as we. >> bye-bye.

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